What false assessment is this and on what is it based? Surely it is generally known that the GDP per capita is not the right measure for the general wellbeing of the people or how well the country is doing. For your info, free primary education was only introduced three years back so this cannot be considered as an achievement, there thiusands kids who r still not going to school, gini- coefficient is one of the highest in the world and is surely not dropping as per your as session, almost 65% if not more have no access to portable water, people r travelling long distanced to get hep from clinics and hospitals which most of the time have no medicines, learners are taught in hurts and sheds mostly in the north, lack of housing is rampant, just look around Windhoek where you probably wrote your article from that houses are way unaffordable even to teachers, nurses, police, army clerks not to mention general workers. Please don't write to please the powers that be because it is absolutely hogwash and no sane Namibian will believe this.

Educational fas been free in public schools since, it ws the administration (management school fee, as it was referred to) that the government scrapped of 5 five years back. Those that didn't have it were allowed to attend school also, saying education wasn't free till three years back, you are probably referring to a different country

It seems you are the one who don't know what you are writing. Basic education (primary and secondary) has been free since 1990. However, pupils where required to pay administration fee of us$1 to us$10 per year for primary and us$5 to us$50 for secondary per year education. The gin coefficient is high but it has dropped by 15 point from 71 in 1990. All what Prof. Stingltz wrote is true and there is data to prove it. May be you need to educate yourself with the country data.

Educational fas been free in public schools since, it ws the administration (management school fee, as it was referred to) that the government scrapped of 5 five years back. Those that didn't have it were allowed to attend school also, saying education wasn't free till three years back, you are probably referring to a different country.

I agree with Mr. Kaleberg. How can countries like Ethiopia with its 100 millions inhabitants learn from "role models" like Botsuana and Namibia who are resource-rich and where 2 million people share lands equal to Germany? Western Commodity extraction provided Botsuana and Nambia with tax revenues (although at very low rates) that was used to finance primary education. Prof. Stiglitz, whats your plan to finance primary education for a country like Ethiopia?

This reads a little too much like a PR piece to me. I would have been interested in reading more about how Namibia managed to get high economic growth and lower its inequality. This pushed me to google it though, which I guess is something...

Well done Namibia
So can what works for just over 2 million be used elsewhere, does it scale. Did the UN having responsibilty for Namibia have anything to do with this positive outcome and if so should we be asking the UN to take responsibility for other countries

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